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Subject: Re: Cells instead of Semaphors?
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* cbbrowne@acm.org
| "Usually only" seems an odd turn of phrase here.
Ha! Only to a native ear. I have my own language in which it sounds great.
What I _meant_ was that "antonym" usually has no more than one meaning,
but that it appeared to have at least one more meaning which made "cell"
an antonym (of something?).
| Note that the word "nice" has gradually turned into a near-antonym of
| what it meant quite some decades ago.
I use the Norwegian equivalent, "fint", ironically, only, but I have no
idea whence the influence for that came.
However, I think this just highlights that "antonym" is the wrong word to
describe what kind of word "cell" is.
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